The Point Podcast

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Dispatches, links and commentary from the editors of The Point. thepointmag.substack.com

  1. 12/11/2025

    Selected Novels | Austyn Wohlers on Clarice Lispector

    On this episode of Selected Novels (the last of the season!), Jess and Zach talk to Austyn Wohlers about Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    37 min

  2. 11/13/2025

    Selected Novels | Maya Binyam on Sam Selvon

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Maya Binyam about Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    51 min

  3. 10/02/2025

    Selected Novels | Eliza Barry Callahan on Fleur Jaeggy

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Eliza Barry Callahan about Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days of Discipline. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    37 min

  4. 09/04/2025

    Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    41 min

  5. 08/07/2025

    Selected Essays | Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee

    On this episode of the podcast, Jess and Zach return to Selected Essays to talk to Ellen Wayland-Smith about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion,” published in the New Yorker in 2018. Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    36 min

  6. 07/03/2025

    Selected Novels | Bruce Holsinger on Stoner

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and English professor Bruce Holsinger about John Williams’s Stoner. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    43 min

  7. 06/05/2025

    Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    47 min

  8. 05/01/2025

    Selected Novels | Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Thomas Mann

    On the fourth episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and short story writer (and Point contributor) Jessi Jezewska Stevens about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thepointmag.substack.com

    44 min
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Dispatches, links and commentary from the editors of The Point. thepointmag.substack.com

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  • Creator
    The Point
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    44
  • Rating
    Clean
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